Mary+Ives


 * SUMMARY: Mary Ives, age 28, died August 7, 1983 after an abortion in Norwich, CT.**

Mary L. Ives was 28 when she had an abortion 19 weeks into her pregnancy.

She was admitted to W.W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, for treatment of complications of the abortion, but her heart and lungs failed due to amniotic fluid embolism.

Mary was pronounced dead on August 7, 1983.

Mary had been born in Norwich on June 11, 1955, never married, and worked as a horticulturist at the University of Connecticut.

Sources: "Fatal Pulmonary Embolism During Legal Induced Abortion in the United States from 1972-1985," Lawson et al., American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 162, No. 4, April 1990, p. 986-990; Connecticut Death Certificate No. 106-83-017389

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